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Just show up book club - May 2024

Caryl Jones — Wed, 08 May 2024 11:48:54 GMT

Join the Just Show Up book club on May 10, 2024, to discuss Slow Productivity: The lost art of accomplishment without burnout by Cal Newport

RE: Just show up book club - May 2024

Gill Tasker (she/her) — Tue, 14 May 2024 08:42:32 GMT

This does look like a good read!

Town hall: Burnout in the workplace

Heath Wilder — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 16:59:38 GMT

Town hall: Burnout in the workplace

Join us for a virtual town hall to talk informally about the challenges of burnout in the workplace. Share strategies for supporting yourself and your team. These events are presented by the Neurodiversity & Mental Wellness Tessitura Community. All are welcome.

2 sessions

Need more info? Please get in touch

Shelly & Heath

Just Show Up Book Club

Shelly Binkley (she/her) — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:29:48 GMT

Hello everyone!

Do you love the idea of book clubs, but struggle to find time to read the books?

Then you might enjoy our new event series called Just Show Up Book Club.

While the book club is being presented by the Neurodiversity & Mental Wellness group, we're really hoping this turns into a book club for the whole community.

And, as the name implies, no need to read the book before hand, Just Show Up!

Our first meeting is on Friday, March 8 at 12pm PST / 3pm EST / 8pm GMT / March 9 7am AEDT.

We will be reading Wintering by Katherine May.

More details are found on the registration page here: https://community.tessitura.com/affinity-tessitura-community-groups/neurodiversity-mental-wellness/c/e/1528

See you there!

RE: Just Show Up Book Club

Shelly Binkley (she/her) — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:46:45 GMT

Hello all, here is the invite for our next Just Show Up Book Club meeting on April 12: https://community.tessitura.com/affinity-tessitura-community-groups/neurodiversity-mental-wellness/c/e/1564

We will continue reading Wintering by Katherine May together then vote on our next read.

If you have any book recommendations for our May/June meeting, click HERE.

RE: Just Show Up Book Club

Heath Wilder — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 14:56:09 GMT

Just a reminder that Just Show Up Bookclub starts in 5 hours 🙂

We are discussing "Wintering"

March 8

Below are some common time zones:

Seattle, USA Fri, 8 March 2024 at 12:00 pm PST
Chicago, USA Fri, 8 March 2024 at 2:00 pm CST
Washington DC, USA Fri, 8 March 2024 at 3:00 pm EST
London, United Kingdom Fri, 8 March 2024 at 8:00 pm GMT
Copenhagen, Denmark Fri, 8 March 2024 at 9:00 pm CET
Melbourne, Australia Sat, 9 March 2024 at 7:00 am AEDT
Auckland, New Zealand Sat, 9 March 2024 at 9:00 am NZDT

Microsoft Teams meeting

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RE: Just Show Up Book Club

Heath Wilder — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:05:43 GMT

I've loved reading this book. It's often wryly funny but quite often reflective in a way I didn't get till a while after reading. It's also easy to read in short bursts and the chapters are quite episodic, though they have a throughline.

Here are some reviews (if you needed convincing).

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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

by Katherine May (Author)

THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Katherine May opens up exactly what I and so many need to hear but haven't known how to name.” —Krista Tippett, On Being

“Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. ... This is truly a beautiful book.” —Elizabeth Gilbert

"Proves that there is grace in letting go, stepping back and giving yourself time to repair in the dark...May is a clear-eyed observer, and her language is steady, honest and accurate capturing the sense, the beauty and the latent power of our resting landscapes." —Wall Street Journal

From the bestselling author of the New York Times bestseller Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age, this is an intimate, revelatory exploration of the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down.

Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a breakup, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For Katherine May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job. Wintering explores how she not only endured this painful time but embraced the singular opportunities it offered.

A moving personal narrative shot through with lessons from literature, mythology, and the natural world, Katherine's story offers instruction on the transformative power of rest and retreat. Illumination emerges from many sources: solstice celebrations and dormice hibernation, C.S. Lewis and Sylvia Plath, swimming in icy waters and sailing arctic seas.

Ultimately Wintering invites us to change how we relate to our own fallow times. May models an active acceptance of sadness and finds nourishment in deep retreat, joy in the hushed beauty of winter, and encouragement in understanding life as cyclical, not linear. A secular mystic, Katherine forms a guiding philosophy for transforming the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season.

Call all creative types: Tessiturians Band Virtual Gathering - November 9, 2023

Bobbi Kay — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:10:12 GMT

The Tessiturians Band is now an official Tessitura Community Group!

As people in the arts and culture world, you all know that there is so much that happens in creating that hour of magic at TLCC and the team is inviting you to be part of that. Be part of the production crew or participate as an avid fan. It’s a great way to stay connected even when you can’t attend TLCC. How is the set list selected? How do you write those catchy lyrics that still make me sing “I am the querier”? (In my mind, lyric writing is akin to fan fiction!)

The group is hosting an inaugural meeting in case you're interested or have a colleague who may be:

Tessiturians Band Virtual Gathering

Thursday, November 9 at 12:00pm ET

RSVP here >

TLCC Closing Party Graphics Info?

Shelly Xiong (they/she) — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 15:38:02 GMT

Hey everyone,

I was wondering if anyone has info about the graphics that was used after the band played at the TLCC closing party. It was glitchy (on purpose) aesthetic that rotated through a bunch of different states. Just curious about the tech that was used for it since I enjoyed it. :D

Thanks,

Shelly Xiong

RE: TLCC Closing Party Graphics Info?

Todd Lantry (he/him) — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 00:26:49 GMT

Hi Shelly, I believe the graphics were generated by the AV company staff who were DJing after the end of the Tessiturians set.

Best,

Todd Lantry
Tessitura Network

RE: TLCC 2023 - Virtual Sessions

Dan Ruth — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:47:07 GMT

The content can be viewed by conference attendees at the link below. I'm not sure if this is accessible to everyone.

app.swapcard.com/.../orlando-tlcc

TLCC 2023 - Virtual Sessions

Brianah Dodson — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:39:13 GMT

Does anyone know where we can access the virtual sessions from this years conference? Will they remain on the TLCC 2023 site or will they be moved to the regular Tessitura site? I am not having much luck getting them to load on the TLCC site today.

Bri

Dance performance in London

Sabina Spilkin — Wed, 24 May 2023 18:15:08 GMT

IHello there! I will be visiting London this July and was wondering if you could suggest a dance/ballet performance that I could attend. I am originally from the former Soviet Union and have had the pleasure of visiting the Bolshoi Theater on a number of occasions. However, it has been 35 long years since I left Moscow. Thank you in advance for your help!

Sabina

Post TLCC reflection

Heath Wilder — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 15:21:35 GMT

Hey friends,

Settling into a new job, I was trying to explain the irreverent majesty that is Nerd Summer Camp¹ to those of who have only seen it through rumour and the social media posts. Every time I try to explain TLCC to anyone I end up feeling like Judy Garland returning from Oz, and trying to convince her family that a magical place really exists.

From the emotional wave of ‘feels’ on social media, the dulcet tones of the Tessiturians (that majesty I was talking about), to the Campbellan journey of Jen Skelly’s lanyard², it could seem pretty baffling. Even for those of us there it can be a lot to unpack.

On the way home I took some R&R in San Francisco while trying to wrangle my head and heart, like a parent collecting sugar fueled kids from a birthday party. With no small irony, I found some focus at a late night Jazz bar that serves (non-alcoholic) Kombucha cocktails. Yeah, I was that guy, minus the man-bun and ill advised facial hair.

Anyway I wrote some loosely SQL structured poetry over two nights, on a mini laptop at the bar (eating my vegan sliders). As I was in San Francisco (and had rewatched Mike Myers in “So I Married and Axe Murderer” again on the flight in), I went the full mile to gave it a spoken word recording. Given Andrew’s keynote unveiled his new love of great poetry I thought it'd be fun to share.

TLCC (In some ways)

In some ways,
I'd forgotten
what TLCC was like.
Just how intense and overwhelming,
joyful and exciting,
frightening and sad.

The experience is something perhaps less like life,
and better explained in Norse saga;
  breathed into existence by Walt Whitman;
      found in an attic
          as lost sketches for Picasso's Guernica
          or Brett Whitley's alchemy.

Feelings at TLCC seem taller,
and broader.
Like things that belong on the stage,
poured from the musing of artists;
not from the office that supports it³

And perhaps TLCC has answers to that as well.
(the) Andrew Recinos quoted Lao Tsu in his closing address
  The wise have no minds of their own,
  finding it in the minds
  of ordinary people.⁴
And anyway,
  are there wise people
      at all?

Something that my friend,⁵
  Mary French
  and I
  talked about,

when people say
(sceptically or) in flattery,
"Are you the smartest Tessitura person here?"

the answer is no
... but also yes.

We are not the smartest,

except that we are,
because we have the mind of the community behind us.

We are a gestalt;

An incredible hive mind of ordinary people,
that do well on our own,
but attain genius when we join together
in odd harmonies.

And this becomes magnified,
  geometrically,
      in that liminal space of conference
as our minds do not sum as single blocks,
but create new 3rd and 4th opportunities
  between us
      that would never be possible apart.

We are more chemistry than physics.

With networking interactions happening at speed,
and relationships
  (previously existing in green lines of commented SQL ⁶
  or the brevity of forum assistance,
      between people at organisations,
      continents and hemispheres apart)
are filled with both the details of real life,
  emotion of people who understand
      your most frustrating predicaments and
      greatest achievements.

In some ways,
  TLCC is like
      meeting your parallel earth doppelganger.
That person with a similar experience;
the same frustrations with "that" department;
that has won "that" personal battle
  you've been fighting so long that
  you've lost the image of success;

and they can give you the key to success.

They are that person that also struggles to be seen
45+ hours a week,
that validates all your experience.

They are your reflection,
your potential energy,
your soul.

So,

In some ways,
It’s unsurprising
that TLCC is such
an emotional experience.

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[1] aka TLCC

[2] I’ve talked to my therapist extensively about the existential dread of wondering at the fate of Jen Skelly’s lanyard outside of the bubble that is pre-during-post conference that borders on the nature of quantum mechanics. Nietzsche said that we should live life as if the material world was all we could know, but if Jen Skelly’s lanyard only exists in the boundaries of a relative conference bubble, what is the fate of its existence post conference? Is there a post conference at all? Could all the lingering feels that we have post conference be the first evidence of quantum superposition in social media. Scary stuff.

[3] I really don’t agree. I see art everywhere. Art is in the person not the job. Like Jack (Rubin) said everyone is a little bit manager and a little bit leader in differing ratios. Punching out into the great blue yonder and mapping the path behind.

[4] not that I think Andrew is “ordinaryifying” Lao Tzu, at least that’s not his primary point. Regardless, I think that Lao Tzu who was aware of the conundrum first, and in essence, was setting himself up. I imagine he’s giggling at his clever joke still.

[5] and saviour and idol

[6] I had the pleasure of thanking Brian Wilbur Grundstrom for the number of times he appears in code comments in my database from stored procedures I’ve gleefully poached

RE: Post TLCC reflection

Heath Wilder — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 11:57:22 GMT

Yeah I know right.

Part of the reason I think that I can't reshape it is that it's the heart of a conversation I had with a close friend and they own it as much as I.

New job is great. My team is exceptional. Walking into a web rebuild up against season launch so never a dull moment.

RE: Post TLCC reflection

Alison Atkinson — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:27:45 GMT

Heath Wilder This resonates hugely with me. Thank you for sharing. I think this new SQL genre of poetry is great.
'meeting your parallel earth doppelganger': SO EXACTLY how I feel about TLCC.
Hope the new job is going really well.

RE: Post TLCC reflection

Heath Wilder — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 20:52:49 GMT

It's definitely something.

I think it needs work, but every time I sat down to impose some structure on it it rebelled, so it probably has a lot of the network living in it.

I thought that I'd just set it free.

RE: Post TLCC reflection

Michele Keutsch — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 15:57:25 GMT

Heath WilderKudos to you!! This is amazing!

Austrian Tessitura Users - Looking for performance recommendations

Lachlan Hywood — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 13:13:20 GMT

Howdy!

I’ll be visiting Vienna for a few weeks at the end of the year (mid-late December) and am looking to see as many shows as I can manage. Are there any Tessitura users working in Vienna venues that could recommend some things? I’m going in completely blind [emoticon:c4563cd7d5574777a71c318021cbbcc8]

Thanks!

TLCC Denver 2022 14er after the conference? Anyone interested?

Dean Yager — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 18:44:10 GMT

Hello All,

I am planning on staying after and adding a Colorado 14,000 foot peak to my hiking list. My plan is to head up into mountain on Thursday and hike up Torreys Peak or Grays (sometimes people do both) on Saturday the 20th or as a backup Friday if the weather looks better. If someone wants to join me I would be happy to meet at the trailhead or even have someone join me at my campsite. I am bringing my tent and sleeping gear but am planning on stopping by REI if someone wanted to join me and rent gear.

Recommendations are to arrive at trailhead around 4am to get parking or camp at the trailhead. It is a 8 mile round trip hike if you just do one of the peaks. If it would be your first 14er we can chat, I can let you know what to expect.

If anyone is interested let me know and we can figure out if we can make logistics work.

Dean Yager

IT Director

The Old Globe - San Diego

Switch off and relax with The Australian Ballet's Livestream of Harlequinade | THIS WEEKEND ONLY!

Emma Fisk — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 11:52:26 GMT

This weekend only, switch off your mind from a busy work week and enjoy The Australian Ballet's recorded live stream of Harlequinade from the comfort of your own home. Performed on the Arts Centre Melbourne's State Theatre stage on Friday 24th June 2022, streaming is available until 7.15pm Sunday 26th June AEST only.

A lively love story based on commedia dell’arte, Harlequinade was created in 1900 by Marius Petipa, who choreographed some of classical ballet’s most enduring works, including Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty. Working with the original notation of Petipa’s choreography, Alexei Ratmansky, former director of the Bolshoi Ballet and artist in residence at American Ballet Theatre, has produced a loving and humorous revival.

This performance is full of dance, joy and feel-good vibes, a perfect recipe for those wanting to sit back and relax for a couple of hours. Tickets are $25 AUD only. Follow the link below for more information and to purchase your access link to the stream.

Live on Ballet TV | The Australian Ballet